The Wilmingtonian., 1887-07-09
The Century for July.

Iu the CEFTURY for July the lighter ma
terial is of a sparkling out-ot-doors charac-
ter, and naturally takes precedence in at
tractiveness at this season.
The opening paper, by John Burroughs,
on Wild Flowers, is profusely illustrated,
and is likely to set many "a young woman
and summer boarder to botanzng; another,
by w. J. Henderson, on "rhe Sportman's
Music," giving pictures Of live game birds
and recording the musical notes of their
songs, appeals more to the other sex. A
third paper, by Talcott Williams, treats OF
'Animal Locomotion in the Muybridge
Photographs" " with lot of drOllY iascnat-
ing pictures exhibiting in progressive series
familiar phenomena not fully seen before in
nature-a mnlc bucking and rearing, pigeons
flying, horses galoping and leaplng, athletes
jumping and throwing ball-payers' bat
ting, etc.,-a paper which is in the nature
of an excursion into a new world. A hu-
morous story, yet not without serious con-
clusiou, is "Sister TodiInter's Heart" by
IL. S. Edwards, with attractive genre pic
lures by Kemble, to which there is foil in
Mr.. Boyesen's pathetic "Crooked John, in
which the writer returns to the Norwegian
field of "Gunuar" and his other carly sue
cesses. To these must be added Stockton's S
"lIuudrcth Man." by one of the most in
diyidual of American fiction writers.
Tie Lincoln History closes up the Kansas
troubles and discusses their corollary, the
!, ,'Lincoln-D Douglas Debates" Interesting
and hitherto unpublished letters by Lincoln
and Greeley are given. Bowling with be-
coming humility like good Americans be-
fore the common fetch, the humorist, read
ers who arc interested in Lincoln will yet
not fail to see how necessary to a knowledge
of the President it is to know the political
| sell and atmosphere which made him what
he was. At the same time the conviction
that Messrs. NicOlay and Hay are the GUS
todians of much of the most personal and in
innate inside history of Lincoln's admins
tratlon may well stimulate the inpatient
| curiosity Of the public. The veteran his
torian; George Bancroft, adds to the histori-
cal value of the number by recounting IAN
Incident in the Life of John Adams" to
which there are added portraits of Adams
and Oliver Ellsworth,
| The War Series, followed since the start
| by the closest attention of thousands, com.
pisses this month the hundred days Of bat
tie in "The Struggle for Atlanta, " compact
y narrated By General .. o. Howard, with
a twopage letter from General Sherman,
regarding "The March to the Sea-" while in
| the next number General Joseph Il. John
ston, his opponent, is to write of the fight
| against Sherman. Short communications
appear from General Hunt, in reply TO Gen
raj Walker ON THE Question of Command
on Cemetery Ridge" and from General IL
V. Boynton on tho late Colonel r. N. Scott
and his work on the War Records. ''Chris
tian Science and "Mind Cure,r by DIR
Buckley, and ''The Potential Energy o
Esnoas by Professor AtFate's are twl
papers Of a suggestive and valuable cbarac
ter by experts in the Investigations whiol
they record.
The poetry of the CENTURY embrace
from month to month many new contribu
tors and large range of method. Thi
month it is contributed by Edith NJ
Thomas, the late Z, r. Sill, William II
Hayno, Kate Putnam Osgood, Juliet G
Marsh, William Struthers, the late Sidno.
l4anicr, and Gertrude Hall.
Other subjects discussed in the numbe
are, "a New Era in Our History" "Relorn
in Municipal Government, college Ex
pcnscs, "Tho Metropolitan Spirit" "Labo
and Capital, +" "Chistian Union from tn
Baptist Point of Viow," american Student
in Germany" photography and American
Art" etc.